RIAA Security Expert's Quest For Reliability

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In the ongoing case of UMG v. Lindor, Ms. Lindor has now moved to exclude the trial testimony of the RIAA's 'expert' witness, Dr. Doug Jacobson. Jacobson is the CTO and co-founder of Palisade Systems, Inc, and a teacher of internet security at Iowa State, but in his February 23rd deposition testimony she argues he failed to meet the reliability standards prescribed by Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Federal Rule of Evidence 702. The Groklaw and Slashdot communities participated in both the preparation of the deposition questions, and the vetting of the witness's responses."

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Re:Routine Motion

[NewYorkCountryLawyer]

This sounds like an RIAA troll to me.

This was the first time in 25,000 cases that the RIAA's expert was deposed.

The RIAA says he is their only witness to copyright infringement.

They used the same expert in all the cases.

And it turns out his testimony would be inadmissible at trial.

I think that's pretty important and not at all "routine".

In fact in 32 1/2 years of working in the litigation field, I've never even heard of anything quite like this.